GLOSARY #3 JOHANY CACERES. BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES The behavioral approach is based on the concept of explaining behavior through observation, and the belief that our environment is what causes us to behave differently. This behavior focused on the responses and the relationship between those responses in the world. NATIVIST APPROACH The Nativist approach believes that we are born with a built-in device of some kind that predisposes us to language acquisition, to a systematic perception of language around us, resulting in the construction of an internalized system of language. FUNCTIONAL APPROACH Is consider the ability to deal with the world, others and with the self using words, sentences, rules and more. LAD Language acquisition device is the manner in which a child acquires language. The children are born with a hard-wired language acquisition device (LAD) in their brains and require formal tutelage of any sort. Is the ability to distinguish speech sounds, organize linguistic data and the ability to engage in the linguistic input. UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR Universal grammar holds that there are certain fundamental grammatical ideas which all humans possess, without having to learn them. Universal grammar acts as a way to explain how language acquisition works in humans, by showing the most basic rules of language, what they hear around them and bring to the language acquisition process.